Merge Posts
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Sarah Hum
Reps should be able to manually merge duplicate posts. Merging should add the merged post as a comment and add unique upvotes.
Sarah Hum
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Sarah Hum
Now in the sidebar on each post, you can merge a duplicate into another post. It'll combine the votes and comments and be recorded in the activity (see above). Enjoy!
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Ivory Mockingbird
Sarah Hum: OMGGGG! Yessss! Thank you! 😲
Andrew Rasmussen
Merged in a post:
Ability to merge duplicate posts
Andrew Rasmussen
This is a duplicate post, showing off our new post merging capabilities 😊
Sarah Hum
in progress
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Prospective Swallow
So this got a ton of action on Feb 21st, but it's not actually clear now what state it's in. Is this in progress? Or just open again?
Andrew Rasmussen
Prospective Swallow: Yikes! Looks like I was doing a bit of testing. Post status history didn't show up publicly at the time. Will clean that up now. 😛
Do you have posts that need merging? Most teams don't get many duplicates because as users compose a new post, we suggest similar posts. It's pretty easy to close it and link them to the correct post, though I understand how this admin tool would be handy.
It isn't currently on the roadmap because it doesn't feel like a huge pain point yet. If that changes, we'll definitely flesh this out.
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Ivory Mockingbird
This would be very helpful! I've had to do a lot of this, and encourage users to upvote the other post.
It also clutters up search when there's existing "Closed" posts that are very similar.